Example sentences of "to make [pron] go " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father was a sergeant in the Army and both parents did their best to try to make me go to school . |
| 2 | Almost , but not quite , enough to make me go and buy a set of reproduction Book-of-Hours Christmas cards from a small-format ‘ gift ’ catalogue … . |
| 3 | Lucenzo , are you doing this to make me go home ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You 're trying to make me go , are n't you ? ’ |
| 5 | It reminded me of when I used to give people money just to make them go away again . |
| 6 | After they had gone in and resumed their grind in the usual places , Rose came out to him and said gently , ‘ You were terrible , Daddy , to make them go down to the lake . ’ |
| 7 | Crushed eggshells were mixed with scouring agents to make them go further and pot scour scourers were made from old silk stockings crocheted into squares . |
| 8 | Why invent a mystery force that magically knows how hard to pull on everything to make them go round the same path when you could say that everything has to go in that curved path because that is how the space itself is curved ? |
| 9 | The people at the table looked like beleaguered tourists in the kind of restaurants where people come and play violins in your ear , that is to say , horribly embarrassed and as if they were wondering how much it would take to make them go away . |
| 10 | Erm , just a word about the previous speaker , I 'm also involved with water meters and if he wants to know how to , how to make them go backwards , if he can speak to me afterwards I do n't have . |
| 11 | they just need a little push to make them go one way or the other so |
| 12 | Is it er something to make you go h high ? |
| 13 | Got to make you go whoosh . |
| 14 | He had pleaded with his mother not to make him go to school , but she had insisted , saying that she would pick him up at the end of the day and take him to the hospital , and that he was to ‘ keep busy ’ . |
| 15 | But they were going for a walk , they had come in to make him go with them , and they wanted me to go too . |
| 16 | She knew there was nothing she could do to make him go away ; and she smelt him , and the acrid want in him . |
| 17 | Something had scared him enough to make him go running across rooftops in the early hours of the morning . |
| 18 | Yeah , he was in agony there , so any way carry him to the toilet , sat him on the toilet and sort of sat there with him a bit trying to make him go a wee , cos I thought perhaps he full bladder and could n't |
| 19 | But I ca n't see how on earth to make it go away . ’ |
| 20 | Mix used cooking oil into your hoof oil to make it go further . |
| 21 | If the Government decides to regulate a particular area of activity , whether because of public pressure following financial scandals or because of an EC directive , the profession is not going to be able either to make it go against public opinion or to relieve it of its responsibilities under the Treaty of Rome . |
| 22 | A mallet and a crowbar , to try to make it go far |
| 23 | John wound up the toy car to make it go . |
| 24 | In the questions task , both age groups showed a strong preference for expressing intentional explanations by means of the infinitive construction ( e.g. , John wound up the toy car to make it go ) . |
| 25 | I poured out some ouzo and added enough water to make it go milkily opaque . |
| 26 | They both wanted , suddenly , to make it go away . |
| 27 | And somehow his hurt had brought him back here , looking for some innocence long since gone from him , looking for some boyhood simplicity to answer the anguish within him , to make it go away . |
| 28 | very hard was n't it , to make it go , to stretch it , was n't it ? |
| 29 | You would n't reduce the batteries to reverse it to make it go the other way . |
| 30 | If you 're going to make it go out that way then you 'll have to make it go out that way at the bottom otherwise it wo n't fit when you try to put the other wall up . |